Let us guard against saying that there are laws in nature. There are merely necessities: there is no one who commands, no one whoobeys, no one who transgresses. Once you understand that there are no purposes, then you also understand that nothing is accidental: for it is only in a world of purposes that the word "accident" makes sense.

I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.

I am no man, I am dynamite.

All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible.

Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.

Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed; - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!